The older I get and the more I have seen and experienced, the more I appreciate the wisdom of these words:

…I want to invite all Christians to join me in this pursuit of greater purity of heart and mind. In our day, when entertainment media is virtually the lingua franca [common language] of the world, this is an invitation to be an alien. And I believe with all my heart that what the world needs is radically bold, sacrificially loving, God-besotted, “freaks” and aliens. In other words, I am inviting you to say no to the world for the sake of the world.

The world does not need more cool, hip, culturally savvy, irrelevant copies of itself. That is a hoax that has duped thousands of young Christians. They think they have to be hip, cool, savvy, culturally aware, watching everything in order not to be freakish. And that is undoing them morally and undoing their witness.

How can we as parents and teachers prepare our young people for the very difficult task of being “God-besotted, ‘freaks’ and aliens”? One way is to very intentionally develop in them a biblical worldview of all of life—including a biblical view of the ever-pervasive and influential entertainment media. This does not mean that we simply ban them from every form of entertainment media. But it does entail equipping our children to be discerning.

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